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# Lead DevOps Engineer

- **Company:** DWP Digital
- **Location:** Sheffield, UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £75,026.0 - £92,522.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Azure, Bash Shell, DevOps, Python (Programming Language), Scripting, Gitlab, Git, Containerization, Gitlab-ci, Kubernetes, Terraform, Software Version Control, Jenkins, Programming Languages
- **Published:** October 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.jobs.service.gov.uk/jobs/6ad222489ff50b2fdd7f1cdf/apply

## About the Role

* Significant experience working across multiple teams as a DevOps specialist, defining standards and ensuring best practices are adopted across the whole organisation.
 * Experience of line-managing, mentoring and supporting DevOps engineers in multi-disciplinary teams in an agile environment.
 * Significant experience of version control systems as well as building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g. git with GitLab CI or Jenkins).
 * Significant experience of Infrastructure-as-code and configuration of code for one or more cloud providers.
 * Experience of containerisation and container orchestration.
 * Experience of multiple scripting or programming languages (e.g. Bash, Python).
 * Significant experience of the full life cycle of Azure cloud-based platforms and applications from designing, through deployment to supporting and operating in production, test and development environments.

## Description

A typical day in this role could start with helping a team troubleshoot a Kubernetes deployment in Azure, before moving into a discussion on how to improve engineering standards across multiple products. Later, you might be mentoring a DevOps Engineer, reviewing a Terraform design, or working with senior leaders to shape the future direction of our platforms and teams.

You'll spend your time enabling others to succeed, championing DevOps culture, and helping teams take ownership of the infrastructure they build and run. One day you'll be improving how we use technologies like AKS, GitLab, Argo and Helm. The next, you'll be supporting recruitment, developing engineering capability, or helping define the standards that keep our services secure, resilient and scalable.